Last night saw another inspirational European comeback from Chelsea as they turned around a two goal deficit to progress to the Champions League semi-finals thanks to goals from Andre Schurrle and Demba Ba.

Chelsea’s midfielders put in an impressive performance, especially Frank Lampard and David Luiz, who were protecting the back four. Despite what happened in the first leg where Luiz was heavily criticised for many individual mistakes, this time round the Brazilian was able to step up on a night where little errors could be made and justified why he is of use to the club.

Last week it was the midfield three of Marco Verratti, Thiago Motta and Blaise Matuidi who were controlling the game, but Luiz and co were having none of that on the night PSG came to the Bridge.

Luiz had a slow start to the game, which didn’t go unnoticed. Former England international Gary Lineker took his discontent of the 26-year-old’s early contribution to Twitter.

Does David Luiz realise the game has kicked off?

Despite this, Luiz eventually grew into the game and was the one who set up Schurrle for the goal that triggered the come back when his flick on met the right foot of the German.

Blues boss Jose Mourinho was also pleased with the Brazilian’s performance to say the least, describing Luiz as being a ‘monster’.

They worked like animals my midfield, David Luiz is a monster

Though David Luiz is often criticised especially when he is playing at centre-half, it was performances like the one last night which show he is an important asset to Chelsea and does in fact have many qualities that sometimes go unnoticed.

Along with the natural attributes you would expect a defender to have, Luiz also has the qualities you would want to see in a midfielder in his locker. He’s able to dribble, take on players, go on bursting runs, has vision, can execute long range passes, the list goes on.

There’s also a real fight about him. He’s one of those players that play for the shirt and the badge. His determination and passion is also something that people don’t always take into consideration .

He can definitely be a liability in defense, yet in midfield it’s like he’s a completely different player.

Luiz belongs in that Chelsea midfield right now and with Ramires struggling to find any sort of form and Nemanja Matic being ineligible in the Champions League, you can expect the Brazil international to keep his spot domestically and in Europe.